14 DAY TRIAL // You must have noticed that classic video games are making a strong comeback on today's consoles thanks to services like the Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. We all have our favorite titles, and many still remember the good old days when Sega's System 16 or System 24 were the ultimate form of entertainment, with their pixelated graphics and mobile-phone screen resolution. Those were the days when the first generation of gamers was born and they want their games back!
The interesting thing is that the people at Sega want them back, too, since they apparently love money as well, but they do have a little problem: they can no longer find the source code for their games. Apparently, the cause of the entire mess is the fact that, over the years, the company had moved so many times that a lot of their games were lost. And that's a really strange thing to hear - I have two reasons for saying that.
First, because I was actually hoping that game developers do care about the games they release and manage to archive them somewhere, just in case an opportunity arises (or, at least, in order to show them to their grandchildren). And second, because today, the old code doesn't mean too much anymore: the graphics have to be revamped, the gameplay mechanics have to be rewritten... basically, Sega has to develop new titles and it could do so without the original code.
There are some voices saying that this is actually the company's strategy in order to make everybody forget about the long gone times when it was a console manufacturer, while others say that Sega is not the only firm struggling to find old source codes. Either way, we're really sorry to hear that. We would've loved some Bonanza Bros. action or, at least, some of the most recent games like Virtua Fighter or Sega Rally.